Precisely 70 years ago, Jacques Lacan conducted his 4th seminar, La Relation d’Objet et les Structures Freudienne, criticizing the then prominent Object Relations school for its failure to encounter the definitive lack of the object. There are varieties of lacking the object – frustration, deprivation, castration – but lack itself is primary. Since objectal ontologies have multiplied in the interim, and ideologies of presence prevail, how are we to theorize absent objects, negative objects, and radical lack today?
InterCcECT resident Summer Lacanian Chris Breu joins us once again to facilitate a special session on the seminar. We’ll aim to read the whole first section, pages 3-84 – but those new to Lacan or working at summer speed should prioritize parts i, ii, and iii (ie through page 51).
Monday 29 June, 5pm, also at THE PUB, most excellent new third space with a print newspaper attached! 2150 W Armitage (Blue Line: Western; Armitage, Western, Damen, Milwaukee buses)
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Now welcoming summer proposals for future events, including on a more frequent schedule or of the longer-term sort (nothing compares 2U, Hot Adorno Summer). And colleagues outside Chicago are of course warmly invited to visit anytime, or be like Saint Louis, Columbus, Knoxville, and Columbia, SC and start an InterCcECT satellite. Handbook and consult available upon request.
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